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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.

Alan Watts

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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Gone Imagination Night Sleep Wake Up
Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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Arrangement Comparison Constellation Look Night Stars Universe
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Inspirational Learning Scholar Student Try
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Mystery Problem Reality Solution
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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Adequate Poetry Talk Words
It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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Life Misery Spend
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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Alive Arrive Dead Proverb Travel
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water

You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.

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